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QuickTip: Access Your NK2 (AutoComplete) File To Extend Your Marketing Efforts

Sunday, June 28, 2009

The NK2 file stores all the AutoComplete information used by Outlook to “auto complete” the e-mail addresses you use.  I discovered it a few weeks ago while getting ready to launch the QuietSpacing(tm) blog.  The immediate value of the NK2 file is that it contains all the e-mail addresses of people with whom you’ve communicated – even those that aren’t in your Contacts yet!

There are a number of free utilities you can download that will allow you to access and manipulate the Nk2 file data, including saving it to spreadsheets and uploading it into other programs – like an e-mail newsletter list.  Here’s the one I used:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.html

but a Google search on “NK2 file” will turn up a host of other sites with information and utilities about this little buried treasure!

QuickTip: Use Comments Window In Calendar Event

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Here’s a QuietSpacing(tm) QuickTip:  Whenever you’re on a conference call or have your laptop with you in a meeting, open the Calendar event for that call/meeting on your computer and take your notes in the comment area provided.  There are several points of leverage here:

1.  You are putting all the transitory information (notes) in a place you’re likely to be able to find in the future.

2.  You can leave the event reminder in the Reminders Window (don’t Dismiss it) until you have done, moved or delegated all the tasks that resulted from that meeting.

3.  You can print and/or Save As that event as a document on your hard drive or document management system in the appropriate place.

Note, you can also drag and drop documents of all sorts into that event further aggregating things related to that event in one location.

Stay tuned for more QuickTips.